A TOOL FOR FACILITATING INFORMATION EXCHANGE BETWEEN BUILDING MATERIAL PROVIDERS AND BUILDING PHYSICS SOFTWARES

E4tech, together with the building material providers Flumroc, Isover, Morandi, Pavatex, Swisspor, Tuileries de Fribourg et Lausanne and with a contribution of the Fraunhofer Institute, developed a new open source format in XML (Extensible Markup Language).

The new tool allows providers to manage independently their own building material database and does not require a central database. The building physics softwares can access the various decentralised databases via a DLL (Dynamic Link Library).

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